An inmate at the Tuscaloosa County Jail has been accused of plotting to have his ex-girlfriend killed.

Reed Max Knight, 53, allegedly offered another inmate money to kill his ex-girlfriend. Knight provided that inmate with details about her work place, a map to her home and other information that could help him find her, said Tuscaloosa County Homicide Unit commander Capt. Loyd Baker.

“We were alerted that this was going on, so we started an investigation a few weeks ago. It culminated yesterday when he was confronted and we obtained a warrant to charge him,” he said.

Knight was charged Monday with solicitation of murder. He had been in the jail since May 16, when he was arrested on charges of violating a protection order and stalking the woman.

According to court documents in the violation of a protection order case, Knight allegedly called his ex-girlfriend, 50, continually and left her threatening messages. Knight and his mother called her supervisor at work and co-workers in attempts to damage her reputation, she wrote in a deposition filed in that case.

“Mr. Knight continues to send letters of threats to me, my sister and my friends,” the woman wrote. “He is calling my work leaving voicemails of threats that I will ‘pay the ultimate sacrifice’….I am in constant fear of my life.”

Knight’s bond was set at $60,000. He was already being held with no bond on the stalking charge.